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8way Map01 4 bots + 4 players in 1996 (1996)

Dated November 24 1996, this is the first known occurence of a combination of 4 players plus bots in one Doom2 deathmatch game, creating the impression of an 8 player game in which some of the opponents were human players. It was played at a public Doom LAN named "DC-CON" held at a private college near Silver Spring, Maryland, the first of a series of LANs in the Washington, DC area to carry that name.

To view this demo, extract the contents of the zipfile, plus the zipfile within the zipfile, into your doom2 directory. Then, run comp-dm.exe, select any option, and allow the game to begin. Then, cause your ms-dos window to quit without actually exiting the game (alt-tab to windows and force the DOS window to close). Then, open a new DOS window and run the included playit.bat.

This game was made possible by a bot patch for Doom known as "immydm" created by a doomer known as "Immortal" (who was not at the LAN) plus a child genius (literally) with the handle of Captain Stinky who happened to be in attendance at DC-CON. Captain Stinky set up the players' workstations to network with immydm instead of the normal Doom2.exe setup, and this recorded game was the result. Players in-game are BahdKo, Captain Stinky (both from Baltimore, MD area at that time), Lunchin, and Steve (both from Washington, DC area).


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LMP Title (if any) : 8 player Doom2 at DC-Con ???
Filename : 8way.lmp -- REQUIRES INCLUDED BAT FILE TO PLAY
LMP Version : Doom2 version 1.9 AND Immydm 1.6
Connect type : IPX
Game : Doom2
Pwad(s) : immy-dm7
Map Level(s) : MAP 1
Skill : 5
Options : NONE - Monsters INCLUDED
Multiplayer Mode : deathmatch
Number of Players : 4 humans + 4 bots
Perspective : player 1 (one of the green players)
Length : 9 min 11 seconds
-timer : none

Author : Bad Company
Email Address : bahdko@erols.com
Misc. Author Info : A halfway decent mouser (just halfway) who
neglects schoolwork and housecleaning to play
Doom2.

Description : This is an LMP of a game that was played at DC-Con
96 that played pretty much like an 8 player Doom2
game on regular map1. This was made possible by
Matt "Captain Stinky" showing us how to make
Immortals "Computer Deathmatch" work with an IPX
4 player game. There were 4 human players in the
game, and 4 of Immy's "bots" (we think...its hard
to countem kinda....)...and this takes place on a
slightly modified Doom2 map1.

There is a batchfile included with this zip that
will setup, run, and restore Doom2 to its original
configuration. To use it you unzip all of the
immydm zipfile into your Doom2 directory, and also
unzip the "playit.bat" file into the Doom2
directory. All of Immys original files are intact
in the immydm zipfile.



THE WAY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO PLAY THIS GAME IS AS FOLLOWS:


We all installed Immy's Computer Deathmatch, and ran it single
player, then reset our computers once the game had begun. The
effect of doing this was that all of our Doom2.exe's were actually
Immy's Computer deathmatch, with the original Doom2.exe renamed
to Doom2.ex_. Then we used Deathmanager to run a 4 player IPX
game, with the settings of Old deathmatch, Nightmare (skill 5),
MONSTERS INCLUDED (--you CANNOT check "nomonsters"--), and added
the wad IMMY-DM7.wad. We also put in the record parameters and
maxdemo. When we were done, to restore Doom2, we renamed
Doom2.exe to IMMYDM.exe, and renamed the Doom2.ex_ back to its
original Doom2.exe.


By the way, Matt is 10 years old, a REALLY
COOL 10-year old, believe me.



Additional Credits to :Immortal and all the people he names in his
textfile for Immydm version 1.6

Matt for putting us onto this....

: Kreuzin, ID, My doomin' buddy Strike, Deathlok
for playing me all those times back when i really
was *terrible*, and Xoleras for posting all of
those LMPs of him playing Doom like pure hell.

Other Info : When I grow up i wanna be a doom-god!

************************************************************************

* Player Information *

Green : Bad Company (BahdKo) P166 Mouse+keys
Indigo : Captain Stinky P60 Mouse+keys
Brown : Lunchin P150 Mouse+keys
Red : Steve P75 Mouse+keys


* DeathMatch Score *

Map 01:
| Green | Indigo | Brown | Red |TOTAL
-----------------------------------------------
Green | 03 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 50
Indigo | 07 | 09 | 15 | 08 | 21
Brown | 15 | 22 | 04 | 14 | 47
Red | 16 | 17 | 08 | 01 | 40
-----------------------------------------------
TOTAL: 158


------------------- Statistics: ---------------
Paused: No, Saved: No, Unknown Actions: No

Note - X%=X% of time, >X=maximum rate, *X=X gametic counts
Player|Forward |Backward|StrafeL |StrafeR |TurnLeft|TurnRght|Fire|Use |Change
------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+----+------+------
Green | 58%>50 | 24%>50 | 31%>40 | 33%>40 | 17%>51 | 16%>55 | 32%|*4411 |*33
Indigo| 64%>50 | 22%>50 | 23%>40 | 28%>40 | 12%>36 | 14%>55 | 25%|*3969 |*51
Brown | 55%>50 | 20%>50 | 17%>50 | 18%>50 | 12%>41 | 13%>51 | 38%|*74 |*35
Red | 70%>50 | 14%>50 | 21%>50 | 35%>50 | 15%>54 | 18%>72 | 14%|*68 |*28

------------------- Other info: ---------------

Player|Control |Run |Strafe |BackFactor|FlickFactor|ArnieFactor|LurkFactor
------+--------+-----+-------+----------+-----------+-----------+----------
Green |Mouser |Fast |Speedy!|12 |5 |12 |2
Indigo|Mouser |Fast |Speedy!|11 |4 |10 |4
Brown |Mouser |Fast |A Bit |10 |4 |15 |4
Red |Mouser |Fast |Speedy!|7 |6 |5 |4



* Where to get this LMP *

VGC BBS (410) 354-4343 or email me